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Thread #169535   Message #4097410
Posted By: GUEST,RA
13-Mar-21 - 01:58 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: about two German words
Subject: RE: Folklore: about two German words
'Dolmetschen' appears to be a loanword into German from the Turkic languages. From Wiktionary:

From Middle High German tolmetsche. Compare Proto-Slavic *t?lmac? (“interpreter”) (Russian ?????´? (tolmác),Polish tlumacz), Hungarian tolmács, borrowed from a Turkic language, from Proto-Turkic *tilmaç (cf. Turkish dilmaç (“translator, interpreter”)).